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Madness Monday

It’s Mental Health awareness week here in the UK from 9-15 October. So I just wanted to do a short post to ask everyone to take a few minutes to remember our ancestors who were described in the census returns as recently as 1911 as either lunatic, idiot, imbecile or feeble-minded.

I certainly can’t begin to imagine how awful life must have been for my ancestors who found themselves in one of the 19th or even 20th century asylums.